A remnant of this ancient block of limestone is set behind a grille in the wall of number 111 Cannon Street. It once stood in the roadway, opposite where it is now, but nobody knows who put it there, or why it was erected. One suggestion is that the Romans measured distances from it along their road network, but there is no evidence of this. The name crops up in written records for the first time in 1100, and the first mayor of London is recorded, in about 1190, as Henry, son of ‘Ailwyn of London Stone’. It seems to have had some significance still in medieval times. When Jack Cade, the rebel leader, entered the town in 1450, he made a point of striking it with his sword while proclaiming himself ‘Lord of London’.

By 1742 the stone was worn and had become a nuisance where it stood, so what was left of it was moved out of the roadway and propped up against St Swithin’s church. Eventually, it was put into an alcove in the wall, where it remained until the church was demolished in 1962 and number 111 was built in its place. London Stone is listed Grade II, and should that building be demolished, the stone will still be accommodated on the site. If it has to be moved, it will be given a temporary home in the Museum of London. The legend that Brutus the Trojan, mythical founder of the city, laid the stone as a temple altar, and that ‘so long as Brutus’s stone is safe, so long shall London flourish’ was, apparently, invented in 1862, but nevertheless the future of the stone appears to be secure.


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